I am upset that it is a "debate" when it is not important and our idiotic media hyped the whole thing up into their usual "debate" of falsely equated sides of talking heads - most often bringing in air heads on both sides since a good expert often ruins their charade and therefore is not worth inviting bringing back again.
If I had not tuned into the media when pluto was killed I wouldn't have known about it-- the hype that is, not the news of its demise which was so nothing I wouldn't likely have remembered it otherwise. The hype made it into an issue when it would have just been a few people annoyed but now we have it being dragged out OVER AN EXPERT CLASSIFICATION. So naturally I am upset when people screw with experts doing their jobs when they should STFU.
We have MORE college students entering who do not know the difference between fact and opinion. Reasoning skills seem to be down as well as the web (and google) has become a mental crutch as people grow up - I think I've been seeing a decline over the last decade. Really soon we will hit 10 billion people, you need to think about stuff besides mars.
Yeah, lets create a crisis by acting thoughtlessly (foolishly) so then reality forces us to have to face the problem.
The Market is far from reality, it merely is forced by hard realities eventually just like everything else is.
One could say the exact thing about a communist solution-- when it becomes scarce people just get smaller rations (except for a few corrupt people who get more than others.) Similar result with both opposing systems.
I would tax it so it lasts longer; maybe put that money into research... fusion perhaps... Ideally you run out around the time you can replace it; estimating when that day will come is not a simple guess... Even if you are wrong, you still delay shortages.
One World government will not likely happen with the U.N. it will happen by economics using corruption to bring about bad trade deals, bad treaties, and privatized organizations like the W.T.O. and banks.
If you can buy legit DVDs in somewhere else and bring them to the USA cheaply then by all means allow it. I don't think it will be a big threat to the bottom line of any movie corporation... Especially as transport becomes more expensive. I've known people who made a few bucks traveling by trading items at both ends -- it wasn't making them a living or harming the economy.
Reality is that corporations ONLY care about profit but for traded corporations their profits are measured by orders of derivatives not simply profit, but the rate of the rate of increased earnings (and I simplified it!) This means inevitably squeezing blood from a stone; that fails to grasp it... They need a bucket of blood from that stone by next quarter and then a barrel of it the next quarter after that and 10 barrels after that... Forcing them to seek out new blood by grinding up anything they can get, this creates a relative perspective problem where the perfectly good stones have no value because it doesn't matter how solid and strong they ARE they do not provide enough of what the bloody the vampires want.
Ok I ran on too far with that metaphor. Point is their DESIGN is fatally flawed and will continue until something crashes.
It is the experts WHO DECIDE what a planet is and they simply got around to doing it and it did not take them much effort to kill off pluto; most the hype is the non experts who must be connecting it with the cartoon dog pluto and are reacting as if somebody killed a dog or the cartoon pluto. Or maybe people are just that stubborn to changes in their knowledge?
It is just a rock that ignorantly was called a planet and upon further examination and advances in science is no longer a planet. Get over it! Its like we just found out the world was not flat; because no religions adopted the cause we are not killing people over it. Now if Jesus said pluto was a planet...
That man always has his money invested where is mouth is. He puts forward a good pitch but one should expect that given his background... Question is, does he mean what he says (many biz guys are great at BS) or is he simply doing a good sell of his personal kind of green-washing? Given some of his past moves, he might be sincere but he can't help but make money (old habits) on his position and this undermines his creditability. Because he is not a "liberal" or environmentalist he doesn't get attacked like Al Gore for conflicts of interest, despite his being obvious.
Gone is the big reason for jQuery. So all the added bloat keeps it afloat while we should be bitching about official support for document.getElementBySelector().
I always wondered why jQuery (last I read the source) didn't implement multiple functions and then dynamically reference the proper function after a test? That caused a minor speed gain for my own compatibility code for quite a long time now.
Of course their other features that are kind of fun do not help matters.
Using credit cards gives your information to foreign corporations (USA) who process all this information in the USA and naturally their government has access to all of it. Don't expect it to go well, Russia tried to at least have the data processed within their nation and lost that fight.
Canada is more likely to have standards develop and government (post Harper) properly regulate it; plus they do have credit unions... Wasn't Canada the nation who's government was looking into providing official electronic money?
Banks will at some point make this cheap or free to compete against credit cards etc. Then as soon as possible they will wring every dime from you as legally possible.
Reality is that geeks are upset they can't mess with the inside of the closed devices- not that changing storage or batteries was really much freedom to begin with. The batteries always were extremely difficult to impossible to source outside of Apple since they have always been custom made (past attempts at industry standard batteries always failed.)
I don't like having a closed device either but I frankly do not care if I can't upgrade the storage or change batteries if they do not extort huge sums from me (beyond what they do already for the devices, which range from fair to abusive.) I've never changed a battery in a computer (other than the lithium for the clock.)
I've taken apart devices with glued batteries-- it is not a huge deal or impossible. For recycling taking it apart is more work than ripping a battery off. Where you should be concerned is if they move to one of those newer paint-on type lithium batteries which can never be removed without some chemical process.
Depends on how you measure 3rd world. Many statistics place the USA in that category. If you broadly count abortions as child mortality then you get 3rd world on that stat plus the lifespan numbers drop as well... As the middle class shrinks the stats will get worse. Then you should think about what is 3rd world today; should whatever metrics that used to describe it remain the same? Education has improved greatly all over the world, so should the previous 3rd world level from 60 years ago still be used as the baseline?
One could make it appear 3rd world overall; but the real point is the USA is at the bottom of the "top" and continually dropping while the rest largely progress upwards.
Bush did the same stuff. One party, two marketing teams. They throw us bones to fight over on gay issues but on important issues there is little difference.
The "right" is never happy either. If you get into specifics, I would not be surprised in the percentage of unhappy left is higher than unhappy right and this would make sense because the political landscape is far greater than the 1 dimensional left and right French seating arrangement of past centuries. Most of the political landscape exists to the left of the so-called small area we refer to as the left. I won't go into the studies claiming that the "right" is more conformist in nature (which for a large portion is also true.)
I am informed and I think; therefore, I am going to take issue more often. If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people??
You forget our supreme court is broken. They can find corporations are people and throw out votes and recently they privatized taxation. Don't expect them to make sense other than to bow to long term corporate interests.
Exactly. Why did I lose my job to China? Hey, lets make ourselves feel better (momentarily) and go shopping at Walmart and a while later throw away the stuff we bought.
I remember when it was a big deal just about 10 years ago when librarians fought back against the government spying on what books people read at their library.
Now only 10 years later, only a few people are upset at the privatized version which just voluntarily hands the data over to the government without any fuss. The impacts are greater and far reaching but people don't care.
Your profile might not be public, like Facebook... but leaks, 3rd parties etc. will someday be providing profiling services to insurance and HR departments. You will not know why you don't get jobs, lose jobs, pay higher insurance, lose LOANs, pay higher interest rates.... It'll take probably decades before a similar system to credit ratings is known about and starting to be regulated (we still do not regulate the credit ratings which can be unfair... not that regulation will fix it.) Your information might be "private" but that does not protect you from "trusted 3rd parties" from providing profiles to others because it is derived information that is your real threat.
You must have no experience with government. Their easiest way out would be a gov auction like we sometimes have - problem is you have to be setup to do those to make them worth it and by the time we have enough junk to do an auction the gear has been sitting around for years - making computer gear kind of useless.
Then there is all the oversight and paperwork involved in doing anything. There is always some official wanting to flex their oversight muscle to show they are protecting the public and since they are most likely crooks they are looking for easy examples to distract from the real stuff they are pulling.
Politics: if something is a failure it is preferred to destroy all evidence of the failure rather than allow some wiseguy investigating and pointing out in detail what went wrong ("how dare they tell us how and why we failed!" the deciders all have such egos they never can handle critiques.) Security often means covering your own ass.
Defending him, his rights, or saying he is innocent does not make him a saint. His sainthood has nothing to do with the case at hand. I don't care if he is a nazi; everybody has rights!
We followed procedure during and after WW2 but now days wimpy terrorist losers with websites get assassinated without due process; we kidnap people anywhere in the world and then... We have sunk so low.
1st person shooters have done little to change despite a whole console (X360) dedicated to them. They change a few things and add levels; but THANKFULLY do not waste with redone themes and new cut scenes to disguise the rehash around a lame new movie plot.
Mario is THE platform game and all of the genre tries to achieve Mario's perfection. I am sure glad they don't make a "Mario: The yearly sequel" with video cut scenes from a plot book, "edgier" graphics, different enemies that all work the same, another kind of fireball which kills stuff the same, yet another tutorial level, and even more ironic realism.
Some employee could be acting alone to do such things; but then the lack of documentation allows for the perfect cover. Unless required to keep emails and memos for every action and a policy or law to retain those in a secure fashion you can't be sure of WHO is behind many actions performed.
Obviously, SOMEBODY does it but with a chain of command it is so much easier to spread, dilute, and HIDE blame.
MS has not thought of it as your computer for quite some time. Vista took away your control further in order to please the movie industry which does not trust anybody (if they could, they'd require a memory zapper so we couldn't remember films we've seen without paying a fee.)
Why can't judges in these cases immediately rule "I pass" since we know they will always appeal and bribe things as far as possible.
Actually, I think in such cases the cost to tax payers should be paid for doing the appeal, or even the lawsuit itself (regardless of outcome.) I doubt it would amount to much of the legal expenses since their lawyers are way more expensive than use of the court room and judge's time. Why should tax payers fund these guys abusing our system? Its not like they actually pay their corporate taxes (even so, a corporation who sues a lot should pay a lot just like trucking services pay more road tax due to their increased wear on our roads.)
Store sales are about 30% overhead; the package, product placement, delivery and store markup price all are overhead. It is true that we no longer need the store or the packages and internet delivery is next to nothing; so comparing it to the web 30% is really greedy but comparing it to a conventional store it is not that unreasonable.
The issue is that they are creating a virtual store- so as a store it is reasonable but because it is virtual it is not actually there doing anything that critical.
Won't be long until they'll charge you an extra 5% to better place your product in the virtual store shelf...
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I am upset that it is a "debate" when it is not important and our idiotic media hyped the whole thing up into their usual "debate" of falsely equated sides of talking heads - most often bringing in air heads on both sides since a good expert often ruins their charade and therefore is not worth inviting bringing back again.
If I had not tuned into the media when pluto was killed I wouldn't have known about it-- the hype that is, not the news of its demise which was so nothing I wouldn't likely have remembered it otherwise. The hype made it into an issue when it would have just been a few people annoyed but now we have it being dragged out OVER AN EXPERT CLASSIFICATION. So naturally I am upset when people screw with experts doing their jobs when they should STFU.
We have MORE college students entering who do not know the difference between fact and opinion. Reasoning skills seem to be down as well as the web (and google) has become a mental crutch as people grow up - I think I've been seeing a decline over the last decade.
Really soon we will hit 10 billion people, you need to think about stuff besides mars.
He might scare somebody who feeling they were defending themselves pull out their gun and shoot themselves a borg.
Yeah, lets create a crisis by acting thoughtlessly (foolishly) so then reality forces us to have to face the problem.
The Market is far from reality, it merely is forced by hard realities eventually just like everything else is.
One could say the exact thing about a communist solution-- when it becomes scarce people just get smaller rations (except for a few corrupt people who get more than others.) Similar result with both opposing systems.
I would tax it so it lasts longer; maybe put that money into research... fusion perhaps... Ideally you run out around the time you can replace it; estimating when that day will come is not a simple guess... Even if you are wrong, you still delay shortages.
One World government will not likely happen with the U.N. it will happen by economics using corruption to bring about bad trade deals, bad treaties, and privatized organizations like the W.T.O. and banks.
If you can buy legit DVDs in somewhere else and bring them to the USA cheaply then by all means allow it. I don't think it will be a big threat to the bottom line of any movie corporation... Especially as transport becomes more expensive. I've known people who made a few bucks traveling by trading items at both ends -- it wasn't making them a living or harming the economy.
Reality is that corporations ONLY care about profit but for traded corporations their profits are measured by orders of derivatives not simply profit, but the rate of the rate of increased earnings (and I simplified it!) This means inevitably squeezing blood from a stone; that fails to grasp it... They need a bucket of blood from that stone by next quarter and then a barrel of it the next quarter after that and 10 barrels after that... Forcing them to seek out new blood by grinding up anything they can get, this creates a relative perspective problem where the perfectly good stones have no value because it doesn't matter how solid and strong they ARE they do not provide enough of what the bloody the vampires want.
Ok I ran on too far with that metaphor. Point is their DESIGN is fatally flawed and will continue until something crashes.
It is the experts WHO DECIDE what a planet is and they simply got around to doing it and it did not take them much effort to kill off pluto; most the hype is the non experts who must be connecting it with the cartoon dog pluto and are reacting as if somebody killed a dog or the cartoon pluto. Or maybe people are just that stubborn to changes in their knowledge?
It is just a rock that ignorantly was called a planet and upon further examination and advances in science is no longer a planet. Get over it! Its like we just found out the world was not flat; because no religions adopted the cause we are not killing people over it. Now if Jesus said pluto was a planet...
That man always has his money invested where is mouth is. He puts forward a good pitch but one should expect that given his background... Question is, does he mean what he says (many biz guys are great at BS) or is he simply doing a good sell of his personal kind of green-washing? Given some of his past moves, he might be sincere but he can't help but make money (old habits) on his position and this undermines his creditability. Because he is not a "liberal" or environmentalist he doesn't get attacked like Al Gore for conflicts of interest, despite his being obvious.
Gone is the big reason for jQuery. So all the added bloat keeps it afloat while we should be bitching about official support for document.getElementBySelector().
I always wondered why jQuery (last I read the source) didn't implement multiple functions and then dynamically reference the proper function after a test? That caused a minor speed gain for my own compatibility code for quite a long time now.
Of course their other features that are kind of fun do not help matters.
Using credit cards gives your information to foreign corporations (USA) who process all this information in the USA and naturally their government has access to all of it. Don't expect it to go well, Russia tried to at least have the data processed within their nation and lost that fight.
Canada is more likely to have standards develop and government (post Harper) properly regulate it; plus they do have credit unions... Wasn't Canada the nation who's government was looking into providing official electronic money?
Banks will at some point make this cheap or free to compete against credit cards etc. Then as soon as possible they will wring every dime from you as legally possible.
Reality is that geeks are upset they can't mess with the inside of the closed devices- not that changing storage or batteries was really much freedom to begin with. The batteries always were extremely difficult to impossible to source outside of Apple since they have always been custom made (past attempts at industry standard batteries always failed.)
I don't like having a closed device either but I frankly do not care if I can't upgrade the storage or change batteries if they do not extort huge sums from me (beyond what they do already for the devices, which range from fair to abusive.) I've never changed a battery in a computer (other than the lithium for the clock.)
I've taken apart devices with glued batteries-- it is not a huge deal or impossible. For recycling taking it apart is more work than ripping a battery off. Where you should be concerned is if they move to one of those newer paint-on type lithium batteries which can never be removed without some chemical process.
Depends on how you measure 3rd world. Many statistics place the USA in that category. If you broadly count abortions as child mortality then you get 3rd world on that stat plus the lifespan numbers drop as well... As the middle class shrinks the stats will get worse. Then you should think about what is 3rd world today; should whatever metrics that used to describe it remain the same? Education has improved greatly all over the world, so should the previous 3rd world level from 60 years ago still be used as the baseline?
One could make it appear 3rd world overall; but the real point is the USA is at the bottom of the "top" and continually dropping while the rest largely progress upwards.
Bush did the same stuff. One party, two marketing teams. They throw us bones to fight over on gay issues but on important issues there is little difference.
We need more software patents limiting everybody. Maybe then people will finally take action.
bcrypt rules. Algorithm design wins against brute force.
The "right" is never happy either. If you get into specifics, I would not be surprised in the percentage of unhappy left is higher than unhappy right and this would make sense because the political landscape is far greater than the 1 dimensional left and right French seating arrangement of past centuries. Most of the political landscape exists to the left of the so-called small area we refer to as the left. I won't go into the studies claiming that the "right" is more conformist in nature (which for a large portion is also true.)
I am informed and I think; therefore, I am going to take issue more often.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people??
You forget our supreme court is broken. They can find corporations are people and throw out votes and recently they privatized taxation. Don't expect them to make sense other than to bow to long term corporate interests.
Exactly. Why did I lose my job to China? Hey, lets make ourselves feel better (momentarily) and go shopping at Walmart and a while later throw away the stuff we bought.
I remember when it was a big deal just about 10 years ago when librarians fought back against the government spying on what books people read at their library.
Now only 10 years later, only a few people are upset at the privatized version which just voluntarily hands the data over to the government without any fuss. The impacts are greater and far reaching but people don't care.
Your profile might not be public, like Facebook... but leaks, 3rd parties etc. will someday be providing profiling services to insurance and HR departments. You will not know why you don't get jobs, lose jobs, pay higher insurance, lose LOANs, pay higher interest rates.... It'll take probably decades before a similar system to credit ratings is known about and starting to be regulated (we still do not regulate the credit ratings which can be unfair... not that regulation will fix it.) Your information might be "private" but that does not protect you from "trusted 3rd parties" from providing profiles to others because it is derived information that is your real threat.
Until microsoft starts another round of lawsuits against Linux, this time using this to screw with everybody and not just using SCO as a front.
You must have no experience with government. Their easiest way out would be a gov auction like we sometimes have - problem is you have to be setup to do those to make them worth it and by the time we have enough junk to do an auction the gear has been sitting around for years - making computer gear kind of useless.
Then there is all the oversight and paperwork involved in doing anything. There is always some official wanting to flex their oversight muscle to show they are protecting the public and since they are most likely crooks they are looking for easy examples to distract from the real stuff they are pulling.
Politics: if something is a failure it is preferred to destroy all evidence of the failure rather than allow some wiseguy investigating and pointing out in detail what went wrong ("how dare they tell us how and why we failed!" the deciders all have such egos they never can handle critiques.) Security often means covering your own ass.
Defending him, his rights, or saying he is innocent does not make him a saint. His sainthood has nothing to do with the case at hand. I don't care if he is a nazi; everybody has rights!
We followed procedure during and after WW2 but now days wimpy terrorist losers with websites get assassinated without due process; we kidnap people anywhere in the world and then... We have sunk so low.
1st person shooters have done little to change despite a whole console (X360) dedicated to them. They change a few things and add levels; but THANKFULLY do not waste with redone themes and new cut scenes to disguise the rehash around a lame new movie plot.
Mario is THE platform game and all of the genre tries to achieve Mario's perfection. I am sure glad they don't make a "Mario: The yearly sequel" with video cut scenes from a plot book, "edgier" graphics, different enemies that all work the same, another kind of fireball which kills stuff the same, yet another tutorial level, and even more ironic realism.
Some employee could be acting alone to do such things; but then the lack of documentation allows for the perfect cover. Unless required to keep emails and memos for every action and a policy or law to retain those in a secure fashion you can't be sure of WHO is behind many actions performed.
Obviously, SOMEBODY does it but with a chain of command it is so much easier to spread, dilute, and HIDE blame.
MS has not thought of it as your computer for quite some time. Vista took away your control further in order to please the movie industry which does not trust anybody (if they could, they'd require a memory zapper so we couldn't remember films we've seen without paying a fee.)
Why can't judges in these cases immediately rule "I pass" since we know they will always appeal and bribe things as far as possible.
Actually, I think in such cases the cost to tax payers should be paid for doing the appeal, or even the lawsuit itself (regardless of outcome.) I doubt it would amount to much of the legal expenses since their lawyers are way more expensive than use of the court room and judge's time. Why should tax payers fund these guys abusing our system? Its not like they actually pay their corporate taxes (even so, a corporation who sues a lot should pay a lot just like trucking services pay more road tax due to their increased wear on our roads.)
Store sales are about 30% overhead; the package, product placement, delivery and store markup price all are overhead. It is true that we no longer need the store or the packages and internet delivery is next to nothing; so comparing it to the web 30% is really greedy but comparing it to a conventional store it is not that unreasonable.
The issue is that they are creating a virtual store- so as a store it is reasonable but because it is virtual it is not actually there doing anything that critical.
Won't be long until they'll charge you an extra 5% to better place your product in the virtual store shelf...